[on leaving Oklahoma for Hollywood, where he became a horse wrangler for Howard Hawks on The Outlaw (1943)] I`d been making a dollar a day as a cowboy, and my first check in Hollywood was for $300. After that, you couldn`t have driven me back to Oklahoma ...
Ben Johnson
Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot...
Michael Mann
One of the first films I went to - I went with my dad because my mother didn`t want to go see a war movie - was Sergeant York (1941). My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from [World War I]. It was directed by Howard Hawks. That was when I fi...
Clint Eastwood
I don`t think John Ford had any kind of respect for me as an actor until I made Red River (1948) for Howard Hawks. I was never quite sure what he did think of me as an actor. I know now, though. Because when I finally won an Oscar for my role as Rooster C...
John Wayne
People talk about my signature. But I ask them if they ever saw Howard Hawks` films. They`re filled with overlapping dialog. Everything I`ve learned has come from watching other directors: Bergman [Ingmar Bergman, Fellini [Federico Fellini], Kurosawa [Aki...
Robert Altman
I really enjoyed a remark that Howard Hawks once made. He said the most important thing is not to ask an actor to do anything he can`t do. Same thing goes for horses.
Tommy Jones
I don`t think either team should have lost. The Hawks are a great team and the Marines are a great team and I congratulate everyone in the organization.
Bobby Valentine
But if one could go back in time, I`d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who`s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo.
Stephen Fry
But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
Amos Oz